Ksepana Mudra(gesture of pouring out and letting go), directs negative energy out of the body, and brings in positive energy. Use when you feel unhappy, or if you need to release any thoughts or concerns which may be causing you tension. This mudra is beneficial after being in a large crowd or following an argument. It clears your energy field and cleanses your emotions.

Ksepana Mudra Practice:

1. Begin with the mudra at heart center. Place your index fingers flat against each other pointing up. Clasp the rest of your fingers and let the finger pads rest on the back of your hands. Cross your thumbs.

2. On your first inhale turn the index fingers to point down. If lying down, point them in the direction of your feet. Completely relax both hands.

3. With each inhale envision vibrant, light energy flowing into your body and on your exhale let go of negativity in any of its forms.

4. Practice a total of seven times. When done place your hands on your thighs with palms turned upward.

Ksepana Mudra Affirmation:

In Gertrud Hirschi’s book, Mudras Yoga in your Hands, she asks us to visualize the following picture: You sit on an elevated stone in or near a stream and hold this mudra. While you exhale, so much sweat pours from every pore, that a rivulet flows out of you into the stream. In conclusion, wash yourself in the cooling stream. Turn and dry off in facing the warming sun. When you inhale, fill yourself with new fresh energy. Then repeat the following affirmation:

I am fascinated with the possible messages from numbers and decided to share how to calculate your Personal Year Vibration Number as shown in Louise Hay’s book, Numbers & Colors. First we need to know what the Universal Number is for 2017, by adding the four digits: 2 + 0 + 1 + 7 = 10 (1 + 0 = #1). In numerology, you continue reducing numbers until you have a single digit. The Universal Year #1 represents the start of a fresh new cycle – a new 9 year cycle of creativity, learning and growth.

Calculating Your Personal Year Number

Add together the birth month + the birth day + current Universal Year = Personal Year Vibration Number. Remember to reduce the result to a single digit by adding together the digits of the sum and doing so repeatedly until the sum is less than 10. Here is an example: 5 (for May) +12 (for birth day) + 1 (Universal Year 2017) = 18 (1+8 = #9 Personal Year Vibration). If your calculations for personal vibrations total an 11 or 22, do not reduce these numbers to a 2 or 4. The numbers 11 and 22 are considered Master Numbers. They indicate that you are being given an opportunity to operate for that period on a higher vibration. Write them as “11/2″ or “22/4″. You then have a choice of being the reduced 2 or 4 rather than 11/2 or 22/4(see options below).

Following are snippets found in Louise Hay’s book, Numbers & Colors, on each Personal Year:

White Buffalo Calf Woman’s ancient legend goes back at least 2000 years, and is central to the spiritual practices of numerous Native American Nations. There are various, but similar, versions of White Buffalo Calf Woman’s mythology. One shares that White Buffalo Calf Woman arrived spending four days with their people. She was cradling a sacred bundle in her arms. On the fourth day White Buffalo Calf Woman left in the same manner she had arrived, telling the people she was leaving the sacred bundle, the White Buffalo Calf Woman’s pipe, in their care. She promise one day to return for it and to also bring harmony and spiritual balanced back to the world.

“It was told that next time there is chaos and disparity, she would return again.

She said she would return as a White Buffalo Calf. Some believe she already has.”

Friend do it this way – that is,
whatever you do in life,
do the very best you can
with both your heart and mind.

And if you do it that way,
the Power Of The Universe
will come to your assistance,
if your heart and mind are in Unity.

When one sits in the Hoop Of The People,
one must be responsible because
All of Creation is related.
And the hurt of one is the hurt of all.
And the honor of one is the honor of all.
And whatever we do effects everything in the universe.

If you do it that way – that is,
if you truly join your heart and mind
as One – whatever you ask for,
that’s the Way It’s Going To Be.

passed down from ~ White Buffalo Calf Woman

I believe we are now seeing Women Wisdom at this time throughout the World.

We are now seeing Women Wisdom at this time throughout the World.

Liberate or liberating is making you feel free and being able to behave as you like. Author, Caren Goldman questions in her book, Healing Words for The Body, Mind and Spirit, “What keeps you so frozen in time that you can’t find the energy or wherewithal to break loose and be who you are now? Is it an old tape playing back something belittling someone once said? Is it self-judgment, doubt or criticism? Is it a fear of change?”

This is the second Preseli Bluestone grid shared from Sue Lilly and Simon Lilly’s book, Preseli Bluestone: Medicine Stone of the Ancestors. Preseli Bluestones are the stones that were used in the building of Stonehenge 5,000 years ago and are only found in the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

The following treatment helps when:

• Experiencing a lack of direction and or motivation.

• If you are having difficulty accomplishing goals.

• You have feelings of being ‘strung out’ or over stressed.

Increasing Personal Power and Manifestation with Preseli Bluestone Grid:

• Before starting ensure stones have been cleaned under running water.

• Make sure not to be disturbed.

• Place the stones and yourself in position.

• Start with five minutes for this first experience with this technique.

• If you feel uncomfortable at any time, move out of position. Let the feeling subside. Then you may wish to resume.

• This layout requires 5 Preseli Bluestones.

• One placed on the center of the brow.

• One placed in each hand.

• One places on the top of each foot – secure with tape if needed.

• At the end of the session, take plenty of time before returning to normal activity.

• If you feel unsteady or out of focus, drink water and maybe eat something sweet.

I have enjoyed reading Ruth White’s book called Using Your Chakras. She mentions “our bodies speak a very simple even primitive language.” She goes on to explain that many times we ignore bodily symptoms and probably an initial look at the language of the symptoms may help us to understand the symbolic message they are giving. For example, how many of us find that our back or neck is our most vulnerable area?

The author suggests when you get a neck pain, ask the following questions. Each question must always be reversed. It can lead you to explore how it links with your emotions.

• Am I being stiff-necked about certain things? Or. Could I possibly gain from being more stiff-necked about something?

• Is something (or someone!) being a ‘pain in the neck’ to me? Or. Am I being a ‘pain in the neck’ to myself or someone else?

• Am I ’sticking my neck out’ unnecessarily about some matter? Or. Should I try to ’stick my neck out’ more with a present situation?

Similarly, if there is back pain, you need to ask:

• Am I being too rigid? Or. Am I being too flexible?

• Is someone ‘on my back’? Or. Am I on someone else’s back?

• Am I carrying too much for myself or other? Or. Am I carrying enough or taking enough responsibility?

Above exercise can be used as a guide on how to listen and begin to understand our bodily messages.

I am dedicating this blog to a dear friend after having a conversation about how many of us have negative feelings about rats. (I promise only photos of pet rats will be featured in today’s blog). Lets look at the positive symbolic meanings of the Rat Animal Spirit Guide. Chinese see the rat as a symbol of industry, and in fact is one of the animals on the Chinese Zodiac. If Rat has scurried across your path you are being asked to assert yourself in new areas that you have not yet explored.

The following is information on the Rat found in Steven D. Farmer, PhD’s book, Animal Spirit Guides:

If RAT show up, it means:

• A project or investment is about to pay off. You Have plenty available to you at all times in spite of any thoughts or fears that this isn’t so.

• This is a good time to exercise caution, and to the best of your ability anticipate what lies ahead.

• Take an inventory of the material goods you have and recycle or throw out what is no longer purposeful.

Call on RAT when:

• You’re involved with a venture that you want to succeed at, yet you are feeling some uncertainty about this happening.

• You are feeling insecure about having enough supplies, making you want to acquire more and more even though you realistically don’t need that much. However, you have decided to do some major housecleaning and get rid of unnecessary baggage.

• You are involved in dealing with someone who is very sharp and want to protect yourself by being just as clever and shrewd.

If RAT is your POWER ANIMAL:

• You tend to hoard your belongings because they help you feel more secure.

• You adapt very well to your surroundings and your environment. You are easy going and happy.

• You are a social animal as well as disarmingly honest and frank.

• You enjoy the feeling of being successful whenever you have achieved something, and you use your cleverness and cunning to succeed.

Flower essences are botanical medicines made from wildflowers. They were first developed by Dr. Edward Bach, a British bacteriologist, in the 1930s. After years of research, he discovered 38 flower-based remedies and recommended them for helping patients restore emotional balance. Since that time, further research has been done and hundreds of other flower remedies have been classified.

In my practice, I find flower essences very beneficial when applied topically from the stock bottle in a variety of non-oral ways. Today, I want to share the following treatment taken from the book, Floral Acupuncture, by Deborah Craydon, C.F.E.P., & Warren Bellows, LIC. A.C. This is a treatment for opening not only to your destiny but also to passion for your destiny task in life.

You will need Holly & Wild Oat Flower Essences ( I recommend Bach), a bowl of 4-6 ounces of water, and cotton balls. Due to the energetic nature of flower essences, it is important to not let the glass dropper touch anything other than the flower essence itself in order to keep the essence as potent as possible.

CONNECTING YOUR DESTINY WITH YOUR PASSION

Holly & Wild Oat Flower Essences are applied directly to the Governing Vessel 4 acupressure point known as the Gate of Destiny. This acupressure (acupuncture) point is where the Element of Water (Wild Oat) ascends and the Element of Fire (Holly) descends.

This is a treatment for opening not only to your destiny but also to passion for your destiny task in life.

To start out the new year, it is important to continue exploring ways to keep our chakras cleansed, balanced, and healthy. Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., shares the following simple chakra cleansing technique in his book: Shaman, Healer Sage – How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas.

Chakra Cleansing Shower Practice

1. Hold your left hand at the base of your spine.

2. At the same time place the fingers of your right hand three or four inches above the location of the Root Chakra. (See illustration).

3. Rotate the Root Chakra with the right hand fingertips in a circle, spinning the chakra counterclockwise three or four times. (imagine your body is the face of the clock).

4. Rinse your fingers in the water.

5. This eliminates the sludge and toxins that adhere to the walls of the chakra.

6. Repeat for all seven chakras, making sure to rinse your fingers thoroughly after completing each chakra. (The approximate location of the Sacral Chakra is the width of three fingers below the naval and the Solar Plexus is approximately the width of three fingers above the navel).

7. Next go back to the Base Chakra and spin it clockwise three or four times. Repeat for all seven chakras.

8. This exercise increases the speed of the chakras, allowing each energy vortex to spin at its optimal frequency.

9. These clean chakras are able to draw in natural energy to help keep us in exceptional health.